250 Track Mix!!!
Yes. Thats one hundred tracks, plus another one hundred tracks, plus another 50 tracks. I wish i was kidding.
I'm at Daddy's House Studios again, (been here 27 of the last 30 days!). I'm back making some minor adjustments to the 250 Track mix i did Friday and Saturday for "Day 26". Not gonna tell you the song title, but The Runners produced it, and i think its got an excellent shot at being a single on their album (I already mixed the first single). i LOVE this song. Anyway, yes 250 tracks. Maybe 50 or 60 tracks are music, the rest are stacks and stacks of vocals. The first nine hours of my mix was spent blending down groups of backing vocals into stereo pairs to reduce the track count to the point that Pro Tools would even play all of the tracks at once. During the mix i had to go back and reblend a few sections again. It was a very long, very tedious mix, but hopefully worth every minute of it. If i hear this on the radio or see the video on TV, i wont be thinking about the 40+ hours spent mixing this song, I will be smiling from ear to ear and turning up the volume to 11. If i get a Gold or Platinum plaque on my wall for this, i wont be thinking about how long the mix session was! I'll be poppin bottles and celebrating my hard work. Now i get to go back to my studio and put some finishing touches on another "Day 26" song. Wish me luck.
-Ken Lewis
I'm at Daddy's House Studios again, (been here 27 of the last 30 days!). I'm back making some minor adjustments to the 250 Track mix i did Friday and Saturday for "Day 26". Not gonna tell you the song title, but The Runners produced it, and i think its got an excellent shot at being a single on their album (I already mixed the first single). i LOVE this song. Anyway, yes 250 tracks. Maybe 50 or 60 tracks are music, the rest are stacks and stacks of vocals. The first nine hours of my mix was spent blending down groups of backing vocals into stereo pairs to reduce the track count to the point that Pro Tools would even play all of the tracks at once. During the mix i had to go back and reblend a few sections again. It was a very long, very tedious mix, but hopefully worth every minute of it. If i hear this on the radio or see the video on TV, i wont be thinking about the 40+ hours spent mixing this song, I will be smiling from ear to ear and turning up the volume to 11. If i get a Gold or Platinum plaque on my wall for this, i wont be thinking about how long the mix session was! I'll be poppin bottles and celebrating my hard work. Now i get to go back to my studio and put some finishing touches on another "Day 26" song. Wish me luck.
-Ken Lewis
posted by Protools Mixing at 2:41 AM
2 Comments:
keep up the great work!
and good luck!!!
-Carlos
Good Luck!! will you appear in any of the MB4 episodes?
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